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Index
Frontcover
Contents
List of Illustrations
Fig. 2.1. Heidelberg University Library, Cod. Pal. germ. 389, Thomasin von Zerclaere, Der welsche Gast, fol. 27r.
Fig. 2.2. Heidelberg University Library, Cod. Pal. germ. 389, Thomasin von Zerclaere, Der welsche Gast, fol. 2r.
Fig. 2.3. Heidelberg University Library, Cod. Pal. germ. 389, Thomasin von Zerclaere, Der welsche Gast, fol. 4r.
Fig. 2.4. Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, Thomasin von Zerclaere, Der welsche Gast, Memb. I 120, fol. 2r.
Fig. 2.5. Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, Thomasin von Zerclaere, Der welsche Gast, Memb. I 120, fol. 9v.
Fig. 2.6. Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, Thomasin von Zerclaere, Der welsche Gast, Memb. I 120, fol. 34r.
Fig. 5.1. Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, The Return of the Jewish Volunteer
Fig. 5.2. Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, The Examination
Fig. 5.3. Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, The Bar Mitzvah Discourse
Fig. 5.4. Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, Sabbath Afternoon
Fig. 5.5. Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, Sabbath Rest
Fig. 5.6. Jean-Honoré Fragonard, A Young Girl Reading
Fig. 7.1. Title page to Blake's The Book of Thel
Fig. 7.2. Tailpiece to Blake's The Book of Thel
Fig. 7.3. Personified spiritus (spirits) released from bondage by heating the serpent
Fig. 7.4. Tailpiece to the first volume of Jacob Bryant, A New System
Fig. 9.1. Liver of Piacenza
Introduction
Part I: Medieval and Early Modern Practices of Reading
1: Apertio Libri: Codex and Conversion
2: The Question of Reading and the Medieval Book: Reception and Manuscript Variation of Thomasin’s Welscher Gast
3: Reading in Nuremberg’s Fifteenth-Century Carnival Plays
4: Shakespeare, Biblical Interpretation, and the Elusiveness of Meaning
Part II: Reading, Secularization, and Transcendence in the Long Nineteenth Century
5: Reading and the Writing of German-Jewish History
6: Similia Similibus Curentur: Homeopathy and Its Magic Wand of Analogy
7: Reading and Rhetorical Generation: The Example of Blake’s Thel
8: Sender Glatteis Reads Lessing and Comes to a Sad End: Some Thoughts on Karl Emil Franzos’s Der Pojaz and the Problem of Jewish Reading
Part III: Theories and Practices of Reading in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
9: Magic Reading
10: “Anything One Wants”: Kafka and Women, Again
11: Reading on the Edge of Oblivion: Virgil and Virgule in Coetzee’s Age of Iron
Part IV: Postscript: The Ends of Reading
12: Reading Experience in Faust
Works Cited
Contributors
Index
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